Country:

Indonesia

Region:

Asia

Date:

2014

Implementor:

HuMa (Association for Community and Ecology-Based Law Reform

Funding Amount:

$40,000

Details:

RRI, with the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission (KOMNAS HAM), supported HuMa in elevating the formal recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ customary resource rights on the agenda of the new Indonesian government. The project supported a National Inquiry to document rights abuses, including threats and abuses of local peoples’ tenure rights. The National Inquiry was part of seven nationwide public hearings on the violations of Indigenous Peoples’ human rights in relation to land, forests, and natural resource issues. These public hearings gave visibility to the numerous abuses, which were used to channel claims and to require more accountability. The hearings included cases where oil palm plantations or mining claims were established without the consent of the Indigenous People, but also cases where National Parks are overlapping with IP territories. The final recommendations and results from this process were released publicly in Indonesia in 2015.